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This month in Vaughan Today we continue our coverage of local busi-nesses both in our regular business section and in our ongoing Best of Vaughan pages. As you may recall, the Best of Vaughan Awards were established by this magazine to rec-ognize the local shops and services that you our readers voted as the best in the city.

The awards were in September and reported in our October issue. So why continue writing about them? Because we as a publishing company decided local business, the employees they hire, and the con-sumers who patronize them deserve year-round support.

We have just been through a major economic downturn that has affected us all in Vaughan, along with the rest of the world, and we may not be out of it yet. We cannot afford to ease up on our mutual sup-port to help each other progress to better times.

Political leaders across North America often mouth phrases declar-ing small and medium-size business-es are the engines of growth and the biggest producers of employment. Focusing on the local scene we can see this is certainly the case here.

We expect to continue to talk and write about the Vaughan econ-omy — and its most successful creators of products, services and jobs — throughout the coming year in our Best of Vaughan pages. Think of this as a monthly assistance we provide with the actual awards of the same name coming at 12-month intervals as we wrap up each year of the business cycle.

Incidentally, I’ve noticed a little confusion in other media about the status of the kinds of businesses we typically cover in Best of Vaughan. To set the record straight, these are not the super-rich corporations or wealthy investors excoriated in the streets these days. They are not the “one percent”.

The great majority of small and medium-size businesses you see lin-ing our streets and advertising in our local publications are run by struggling entrepreneurs who find it increasingly difficult to keep their positions in the middle class. It is in our interests — all of our inter-ests — to help keep them afloat and prospering by shopping locally whenever possible.

And since Vaughan has almost every product and service available

right here, when is it ever not pos-sible? Check our pages to help find whatever you need in this wonder-fully wide and diverse city.

Speaking of not being the one percent, this is a neat segue into mentioning some of the other fea-tures in this issue.

The cover story is our editor-in-chief’s partly whimsical search and partly serious search for Occupy-WallStreet-styled activism in our own fair city — and a discussion of how Vaughan citizens actually do engage with the city’s political apparatus.

And speaking of that, several of our reporting staff have contributed to the first-year report card for our city council, looking back at the strange and inspiring 12 months we’ve just had in Vaughan’s halls of power.

This makes it all the easier for many of us residents to enjoy the finer things in life Vaughan offers. In this issue we continue to discuss these pursuits with you — namely, home and family, arts, dining and local sports, which is being expand-ed with this edition of Vaughan Today.

I hope you enjoy all the serious and not-so-serious content of the magazine that’s in your hands.

And, as always, I trust you’ll let us know what you like and where you think we’re falling down. You can use mail, email or twitter to let us know.

As mentioned elsewhere in this issue, you can always count on Vaughan people to speak their minds.

We always look forward to it.

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Vaughan’s integrity commis-sioner Suzanne Craig may be feel-ing these days like the Maytag repairman of television commer-cial fame: With no calls for her services, how is she to spend her day?

“To date, I have not received any formal or informal complaints for any current members of coun-cil,” she said last month.

It turns out that she still has plenty to do, fielding public enqui-ries and advising councillors about the fine points of Vaughan’s Code of Ethical Conduct. But it’s quite different from her work under the previous administration.

During Craig’s first year in office, between April 2009 and April 2010, Craig received 11 for-mal complaints and 21 informal complaints. Complaints were often quite detailed and ensuing investi-gations quite broad, she said.

As integrity commissioner, Craig investigates complaints in which it is believed an elected pub-lic official has violated the codes of behaviour set out in Vaughan’s Code of Ethical Conduct.

Since the new council took office in January, Craig says any requests from the public and

council members are generally of an interpretative nature to better understand the code.

“I can say anecdotally that the role I’m conducting now seems to be more of an advisory and less of an investigative role,” she said.

While nary a complaint thus far would indicate a marked break from past, it’s possible new council is still in their honeymoon phase.

To compare the complaint sta-tistics to the previous council’s first year in office isn’t possible, as the office of integrity commis-sioner in Vaughan was only estab-lished in 2007.

Though the absence of com-plaints doesn’t necessarily sig-nify a state of good repair, Craig acknowledges it’s a positive change from the previous term.

“If no one has brought to my office an informal or formal com-plaint then clearly the community and council are feeling a sense of understanding, and are adhering to these rules,” she said.

Working with the account-ability and transparency commit-tee, the integrity commissioner is also responsible for education, and Craig says she has met with all members of council and their executive assistants for training.

A year in the

political life of

Vaughan

2010

OctoberMunicipal election throws out embattled mayor linda Jack-son, along with four incumbent councillors Joyce frustaglio, Mario ferri, Peter Meffe and bernie diVona. former MP Maurizio bevilacqua is elected mayor, along with four new councillors: deb schulte, Mari-lyn iafrate, rosanna defranc-esca, and Jackson’s predeces-sor, Michael dibiase. Keeping their council seats are Gino rosati, tony carella, sandra Yeung racco and alan shef-man.

Decemberthe new council is inaugurated and takes office in a new city hall, with Mayor bevilacqua proclaiming a “new era”.

the new council freezes coun-cillor salaries, voting to forego a scheduled pay raise.

ontario’s former police head Julian fantino wins liberal bev-ilacqua’s former Vaughan seat for the conservatives, but cites his victory as resulting from the same local desire for change. he commits to work to get federal funding for the Vaughan hospital. fantino is elevated to the federal cabinet with thorn-hill MP Peter Kent.

2011

Januarycouncil members sign Mayor bevilacqua’s one-page Vaughan accord, pledging civility and setting ethical standards for councillors and city staff. with its 12 resolu-tions, Vaughan representatives promise to act as responsible stewards of the city’s finances, provide stable government and act constructively.

upon a resolution by bevilac-qua, council orders city staff to launch a line-by-line budgetary review of city programs and expenditures.

Februarycouncil orders an audit to determine how the building of a new civic centre, projected to cost $107 million, went $15.6 million over budget.

Marchcharges against both di biase and Jackson arising from their 2006 election fight are dis-missed. court actions in neither case are appealed by the cur-rent city council. however, the city is still after Jackson to pay $113,000 in legal and other costs.

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A strange year at city hallVaughan (Vaughan?!) is becoming known

for its constructive political dialogue

Wat a difference a year makes in Vaughan politics. If an alien (by which we mean a Torontonian, of course) visited our city hall before the civic election of 2010 and again 12 months later, it might think it had landed on a different planet.

It’s a different city hall, for one thing.

More importantly, a different, less acrid atmosphere lingers inside the civic centre.

Before 2010, Vaughan city govern-ment had seemed to lurch from one crisis to another under Mayor Linda Jackson, who had narrowly defeated former mayor Michael Di Biase in 2006. Jackson never got along with council, largely made up of Di Biase loyalists. Every day the news was of continued legal fighting between Di Biase and Jackson, infighting on coun-cil, lawsuits, conflict of interest charges, and councillor spending audits, plus the general inability to agree on steps to move Vaughan forward. At the term’s halfway point, council unsuccessfully attempted to force Jackson to resign.

The past year has been different. Just as the previous election had set council on a four-year course of acri-mony, the 2010 election appears — at the one-year mark — to have started our representatives into a more con-

structive term of office.Heralded by an accord presented

with fanfare in January by new mayor Maurizio Bevilacqua, and signed by all new and returning councillors, the new council has proceeded to work together so far with only a few hiccups along the way.

They do not necessarily agree on everything. Far from it, according to first-term regional councillor Deb Schulte.

“I think that’s what the public was really looking for — not necessarily harmony in terms of thinking, because you want that diversity of thought to get the best,” Schulte says. “We’re very strong in our positions, but we’re will-ing to bend and be flexible to make a better solution for everybody.”

Her colleague and fellow freshman Marilyn Iafrate agrees.

“We can’t always agree on every-thing, but at least we respect each other’s comments,” she said, adding that unlike the previous council’s knack for letting bad feelings linger after each contentious issue, with this group “when it’s over, it’s over and you move on to the next project.”

She especially credits the political veterans who have had to make the big-gest change.

The head veteran, DiBiase, a coun-cillor from 1988 to 2002 and mayor for four years after that, says the new


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Aprilcouncil unanimously passes a new budget calling for an increase in propery tax of nearly two percent plus a levy to help pay for the land on which to build a hospital.

Junecouncil passes a resolu-tion calling for a more definitive partnership between the city and the Vaughan health campus of care, in effect seekng oversight of the property on which the long-await-ed new hospital is to be developed.

facing a proposed Gta “superhighway” pass-ing through northern Vaughan, council asks the province to prove this corridor would have less of a negative impact on the social and natural environment than an atler-native route across the oak ridges Moraine.

Julyan audit shows the build-ing of the new city hall went $15.6 million over budget mainly due to a lack of planning.

the provincial govern-ment of dalton McGuinty announces it will help fund the anticipated hospital in Vaughan. the Vaughan healthcare foundation is to contrib-ute $200 million to the project, while $117 mil-lion is to come from York region and $80 million from the city.

Septemberthe new city hall is offi-cially opened. smiles all around, except for critics who question the cost and overruns.

A strange year at city hallspirit of cooperation is a throwback to his administration.

“I had a great working relationship with members of council when I was mayor. They all endorsed me, except one, in 2006.”

He’s not sure the current council has

any one great achievement but it’s been a busy, mostly successful year, he says.

“I think the only disappointment so far is we had (MPP) Greg Sorbara say the hospital’s been approved but we haven’t started construction yet, so we’re not

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Along with protests and camps in our largest urban centres since Oct. 15, smaller scale events have occurred in our medium-sized cities. In Ontario, the Occupy movement showed up in places like Windsor, Kingston and Sault Ste. Marie. Across Canada, “occupiers” took to the streets and parks in St. John’s,

Moncton, Charlottetown, Saskatoon, Regina, Kelowna, Kamloops, Victoria and Nanaimo — which have populations as low as 32,000.

But not in Vaughan. With its quarter million residents making it larger than any of those cities, this municipality’s streets and parks have remained quiet.

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Another suggests it’s not that Vaughan is being left out so much as Vaughan is ahead of the activist curve: “#occu-pyvaughan started many years ago.…”

This is also the view of longtime politi-cal gadfly Richard Lorello, who — if anyone — might be expected to welcome some kind of political uprising.

“I was gauging the community to see if Occupy Vaughan could work here,” the once-Conservative candidate and IT man-ager admits.

Although some pockets of protest over specific ratepayer issues have been evident, Lorello concluded activists in Vaughan are for the most part unwilling to expose themselves to repercussions from going public as in the Occupy or Tea Party type of movements.

Rather a different form of ongoing political upheaval — perhaps more reflec-tive of Vaughan — may have obviated the need for such a protest this fall.

“Occupy Vaughan has been going on for a while,” Lorello says, pointing to the political agitation that led to the dramatic changes on the municipal scene after the 2010 civic elections.

During that period, Vaughan became recognized far beyond its borders as a hotbed of dissension. But the political conflicts that got most of the media cover-age for Vaughan in those years were fight-ing between and within the established political parties, and channeled toward achieving power on official ruling bodies, something the recent Canada-wide demon-strators appear to be avoiding, so far.

In this analysis of Vaughan’s political mood, the replacement of a mayor and of half the city council, among other changes to the local power structure, has been our revolution. No street uprising needed.

If anything, the process may have turned some citizens off from more direct grassroots action.

Vaughan has a handful of local activists who raise awareness of social and political issues, says realtor and political observer Carl Minicucci, who engages with them online and holds they fill an important role in our political system.

However, they are underappreciated, he says.

“Generally speaking, they’re often crit-

icized for either being disruptive to the city or being politically motivated in their efforts.”

Still, he sees a new trend in Vaughan: the rise of socially minded community groups that are more formally organized and share a common self interest, a devel-opment that had earlier taken hold in Toronto and other Canadian cities.

“As they evolve, they will only grow in influence,” Minicucci predicts.

One of those groups, the Vaughan Social Action Committee, was officially founded last year after several years of advocacy. On its website it calls itself a “non-profit organization whose vision is to create a caring, prosperous, and inclusive community where all people in Vaughan are able to realize healthy and successful lives.” So far it has been involved in issues ranging from regulation of basement apart-ments to mental health matters.

This month it is holding a public meet-ing on plans for the anticipated new hospi-tal in Vaughan.

“We want to bring all the service pro-viders, concerned citizens and ratepayers together to make them aware of what health services Vaughan needs at the hos-pital — and advocate for those needs,” says the group’s co-chair Anna DeBartolo.

VSAC was formed because citizens’ voices had been missing in the dialogue on such issues, she says. So does she see a need for Occupy-style organizing?

“At this point, we don’t see it,” she says. “But if someone wants to do some-thing like that, we wouldn’t oppose it.”

VSAC is volunteer-based — without salaries or long-term funding. It takes in just enough from meeting registration fees (usually about $10) to cover immediate costs, says DeBartolo, who is also a trustee on the York Region school board.

But she is confident local politi-cians will heed Vaughan citizens’ voices, expressed through VSAC. The group has already experienced support from the city and several councillors are expected to attend this month’s public meeting.

The VSAC example shows how local organizers work both outside and through existing channels. But it may also illustrate another feature of Vaughan activism: it deals with uniquely Vaughan issues.

Though not everyone is avoiding the wider issues raised by the notoriously vague Occupy movement.

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Making the doughToronto-based bakery Pita Break

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After 15 years of baking bread, it’s time to take a Pita Break.

But not for long, as the family-owned business recently expanded to Vaughan, opening a full com-mercial bakery at 11 Director Ct.

“Vaughan was convenient for us,” said Alon Ozery, the bakery’s founder. “It’s a central loca-tion.”

Pita Break, which started as a 700 square foot sandwich shop at Yonge and Wellesley Streets, now employs approximately 150 workers and sells products across Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. They operate as Ozery Bakery Inc. in the U.S.

Alon established the original sandwich shop in 1996 along with his father Al and his brother Guy. He created a business plan while studying at Ryerson University.

Initially, they simply made pitas for the sand-wiches they sold. The family is Israeli with some roots in Yemen and has a long history of baking bread. Purchasing bread for their sandwiches was not an option.

“At all our family gatherings we’d make fresh pita, you don’t buy bread,” Alon said. “That was fascinating to me. I loved the baking.”

At first, like any small business, they struggled. Al, who was 61 at the time, invested his life sav-ings into the eatery.

“He put every penny he had in this store, and then we had to borrow a lot more,” Alon said.

Within a few months, they started having lineups. It wasn’t long before the company had expanded to selling their pitas to stores in down-town Toronto such as Pusateri’s.

They gradually expanded to larger chains such as Longo’s, Loblaws and Metro. Today they are sold at Costco and Whole Foods Market as well.

The key to their success is simple: make healthy, tasty products with natural ingredients. And have fun while doing it.

“The formula seems to have worked for us, and we’re very, very thankful for that,” Alon said.

Testament to that is Pita Break’s motto, “Happy people baking”.

The company has developed new products such as mini pitas, breakfast pitas and their signature lavash crackers. All their products are certified kosher.

“We kind of veered away from the conventional pita,” Alon said. “We kind of Canadianized or Americanized them.”

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Now 15 years later, the company still uses many of their original reci-pes, and while most of their products are created by assembly line, Alon explains it’s the natural ingredients and attention to detail that makes their breads special.

He points out that while conventional pitas are made in about an hour, the Pita Break method takes almost triple that time.

“That’s the difference between us and other pita manufacturers,” Alon contends. “It’s a much slower process.”

At the company’s 15th anniversary, Mayor Maurizio Bevilacqua was on hand to congratulate them on their success.

“That you’ve lasted 15 years also speaks to a wonderful reality,” Bevi-lacqua said. “As mayor of this city, I’m very happy you’re here.”

The mayor noted the family’s immigrant roots and mentioned how his own family experienced humble beginnings.

“Those of us who have lived through the immi-grant experience really do come here with a dream, a dream to better ourselves,” Bevilacqua said. “But somehow as it often happens, in our journey to bet-ter ourselves we provide greater opportunities for others.”

Bevilacqua commended the family for choosing Vaughan as Pita Break’s new home and providing approximately 150 employees with work.

“This is much more than just a business,” he said. “This is providing many, many families with their livelihood. This is about expanding opportunities for a lot of people.”

Al anchored the mayor’s words with his own anecdote, sharing an encounter he recently had with an employee who emigrated from China.

“One employee told me, I’ve been working for this company for 10 years,” Al said. “I built a house, my daughter is in university, this is my first job and I hope this will be my last job.

“We are a family of immigrants, we started a business that employs (mostly) immigrants, we gave the opportunity to work and to earn money and to make a living. If we’ve achieved that . . . that’s good enough for me.”

“This is much more than just a business.”

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She says Fredrick Prince Hand Crafted Jewelry & Accessories stems from Prince Frederick, the Duke of York and Albany, which she also liked because York, Ontario, was named in his honour.

De Luca, who lives near Weston Road and Highway 7, says Vaughan was a great home base for her studio because she felt it was missing original jewellery options that weren’t from chain stores.

“Everyone kind of has the same style and looks like they shop at the same store so I thought it would be cool to introduce something different to the area,” she says.

To make the most of accessories, especially over the holidays, the self-taught designer sug-gests picking pieces that would look good with a black dress as well as jeans and a T-shirt.

“The good thing with jewellery is that it’s so versatile,” she says. “I think that people have to choose wisely to be able to get the best use out of it so if they’re going to a Christmas party and have to dress up they can wear it or if they’re going to Christmas dinner and it’s casual they can wear it as well.”

The pieces in her own collection, which is available at Denim 101 on Weston Road and Five O Seven in Vaughan Mills, are handmade and she strives to create styles that are timeless with a modern twist.

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“It’s now in 15 retail locations, which is a big step for me,” she says, adding she also started host-ing soirees around her line. “I’m just getting really good feedback so this is definitely the year I think that has been an entire highlight.”

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there just yet,” the regional coun-cillor says. “We don’t have a firm date.”

Di Biase’s former opponent Jackson says she wishes the new council luck but warns of tough issues to come, including the fight council will have over the next three to 10 years involves the sprawling municipality’s need to intensify its communities and buildings.

Intensification will take place in areas where residents are unfa-miliar with major development, she says, and councillors’ hands are tied when it comes to stopping developers from building opposed developments.

“A lot of time you knew that if you said no, they’d get their approvals with the province,” Jack-son says. “I don’t think the prov-ince has done a lot for Vaughan.”

That puts the pressure on Mayor Bevilacqua. Moving from high-level positions in federal politics, Bevilacqua has quickly become a municipal politician who doesn’t take sides in either provincial or federal politics “and that must have been hard for him,” political com-mentator Patrick Gossage says.

But Gossage predicts other lev-els of government will likely work more closely with him than with

his predecessor. “Nobody wanted to deal with

her because Vaughan was consid-ered unreliable,” he said. “I think he’s the right man at the right time.”

Speaking from Queen’s Park, MPP Sorbara puts it differently.

“It just wasn’t as close a work-ing relationship (with Jackson),” he said, before explaining how things will be different with Bevilacqua. “When you’re dealing with some-one who you know and with whom you’ve invested a lot of trust in the past, things just go more quickly — you can shorthand rather than stand on ceremony.”

In fact, Sorbara gives the entire new council very high marks for setting a good standard of coopera-tion at municipal council.

“That doesn’t mean there’s not going to be difficult issues, but acrimony has been replaced with cooperation and consensus build-ing,” he added.

The accord that launched the new era was brilliant, says Gos-sage, and Bevilacqua has had some success. But he’s got some formi-dable challenges ahead — such as traffic congestion that may be almost impossible to deal with.

Already a few cracks have

appeared. After an audit blamed the city hall cost overruns on poor planning, councillors variously blamed the current administration, the previous council, and the one before that.

More recently, Iafrate has reportedly warned Di Biase to step away from a charitable foundation to avoid potential conflict of inter-est although he defended his partic-ipation, reminiscent of exchanges on the previous council.

For this group of disparate coun-cillors, finding out how to work together has required a “learning curve” through much of this year, Di Biase says.

In the meantime, Vaughan may be setting an example for other municipalities for a change.

“I’ve seen and heard from my colleagues in different cities around York Region, that they’re having the difficulties that we had before, where they have people who can-not find a way to compromise,” Schulte says.

Ah, yes, come to Vaughan for the political peace and quiet. You might learn something from us.

But hurry — we don’t know how long this will last.

— With files from Karolyn Coorsh and Omar Mosleh

“When I heard about [Occupy Toronto], I had to be there,” says a Thornhill resident who asked that her name be withheld. She has been involved with Occupy Toronto since the beginning — joining the demonstration, camping in St. James Park at least one night, and returning several times, while continuing to attend college in North York on weekdays.

A political neophyte, the 23-year-old says the rea-son she went to Toronto rather than consider action in her home city of Vaughan is simple: she never thought of it.

“I’ve never heard of anything like that happening here and I just automatically thought: Toronto,” she says. “I guess I’d join something here if someone told me, but living on the edge [of Toronto] like I do, I just naturally sort of feel Toronto is my centre for this sort of thing.”

And she feels at home in the downtown Toronto park with other protesters, she says, “except for that long transit ride down and back from there every day.”

Despite the promotion of Vaughan as an urban centre — for years calling itself “The City Above Toronto” — it seems some still think of this city as quite different from the metropolis to the south.

“I don’t believe a movement like OccupyToronto would find much of a following in a suburban setting like Vaughan,” Minicucci says.

He also shares the criticism of many that the OccupyToronto movement has been unclear about its demands and has been ineffective in winning people to its side.

That’s certainly not an issue here: Time has shown that we always know what Vaughan politicians and their vocal critics are thinking.

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In one way, the Best of Vaughan Awards are over but, in another, they never end — for our local businesses continue to start up, change, expand and prosper with the community in which they are based.

Each month we are highlighting some of our leading stores, restaurants, recreational centres and services. This month we present the entire list of 2011 winners to give them each the recognition they deserve — as well as a few indepth looks at the stories behind their successes.

Watch for our yellow-edged pages in future issues for more on the Vaughan economy and the healthy state of our entrepreneurial spirit.

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Cindy Chiovitti hopes to show other moms they can have the best of both worlds.

“I’d like to be an inspiration for women that they can be entrepreneurs and also be moms and still achieve and hold a well-established business,” she says.

With over two decades of experience running her own company, she says she’s found a balance by maintaining a good time schedule and being pas-sionate about her work and being a mom.

Over the years she says her customers have become more knowledgeable and accustomed to spa services.

“They know what they’re looking for and they know what they’d like to feel and experience,” she says, adding that her services range from outer to inner beauty care. “It’s very relaxing, it’s a total mind, body and soul experience.”

Along with being kind hearted and honest she credits her longevity to treating her clients the way she’d like to be treated when she goes to a spa.

This attitude may have helped Serenity Spa and Laser secure the Outstanding Award in the health category at the Best of Vaughan Awards, which was

selected and voted on by the public at large.“This award means a lot to me,” she says. “This

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“I put my whole heart into it, my whole life is this, that’s why I’ve been doing it for 20 years.”

Serenity Spa and Laser also won gold in the spa

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The secret to Vicentina Fine Foods’ success may be in the recipe for Mike Mannara’s porchetta sandwiches.

His daughter Genny Branco says it is their sig-nature and best-selling dish.

“He’s really well known for his porchetta,” she says. “That’s a recipe that he’s come up with for the last 40 years.”

Vicentina Fine Foods, an eatery, grocery store and butcher shop, recently won gold in the butcher cat-egory at the Best of Vaughan Awards on Sept. 22.

“Oh my god, honestly, it was really, really exciting because we worked so hard for so many years and to finally have something like this … to be noticed by the community, it was really a great honour,” she says.

In addition to offering fresh meats, a panino bar, gourmet frozen foods such as their popular spiedini, she says they also cater corporate and

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We went into La Taquizza, Vaughan’s authentic Mexican restaurant, anticipat-ing the unique. And we weren’t disappointed.

The unusual began with our drinks, the classic Mexican tipple, the Margarita. We opted for Tamarindo ($6.95), which proved to have a very sweet flavour my guest didn’t like at all. I didn’t mind the flavour but found it too sugary. Tamarind is certainly an acquired taste.

The menu offers the known in enchiladas, quesadillas and burritos, but also the less familiar in tostadas, flautas and huaraches. On the other hand, those who have traveled to Mexico and eaten outside an all-inclusive, will know these too. We decided to start with a cactus salad (to get our veggies) and an appetizer, choriqueso.

The cooked flesh of prickly pear cactus (minus the spines) is distinctly Mexi-can. There’s a generous portion of cactus in our salad, tossed with lettuce, toma-toes, onions and a very mild dressing, all topped with sliced avocados ($7.75). The flavour is slightly citrusy and very refreshing. It’s new to my guest and she gives it two thumbs up. Despite the fact we both tuck in with enthusiasm, there’s still some left.

Before we can eat our choriqueso dip, we have to visit the salsa bar with our platter and its three little bowls. We fill these with three of the four salsas and ask for a fourth little bowl so we can try that one too. They’re obviously freshly made and range from mild (still pretty hot) to five-alarm (only for the asbestos-tongued), with a very tasty salsa verde in second place for heat.

The dip is basically melted cheese that moves way beyond mozzarella for chewiness (lifting a portion from the bowl would be easier with scissors), topped with crumbled Mexican sausage, all served with homemade tortillas ($8.75). We roll our miniature tacos of choriqueso and top them with great dollops of salsa.

For our main courses, we eschew the known and ask for two dishes new to us. My guest’s huarache de tinga is a signature dish ($9.75). Named for the sandal it resembles, this is basically a soft cornmeal base topped with refried beans, shredded chicken in a chipotle sauce, sour cream, cheese and shredded lettuce. The chicken is spicy and the blend of flavours is really appealing, but the fact it’s lukewarm spoils the overall appreciation of the dish. It can’t even be returned to be reheated as the lettuce and sour cream wouldn’t fare well. It’s a pity.

My choice of enchiladas de mole poblano ($14.85 for the vegetarian version) comes with a portion of rice and black beans. Mole (pronounced molay) is a rich sauce made with about 20 ingredients, the most notable of which is chocolate, slowly cooked together. I have had moles before and was interested to sample this one. My guest doesn’t like it. I do, but sadly, once again the lukewarm temperature takes much of the enjoyment from the dish.

We press on to dessert and decide to share pastel de tres leches (three milk cake) ($5.95). Another Latin American classic, this light sponge cake is drenched in what appears to be evaporated and condensed milks (the third must be the whipped cream on the top). It’s so good, I’m tempted to take a portion home.

La Taquizza is a long way from Taco Bell in every way. The food is nothing like the usual Tex Mex offerings of the chains. And fast food it’s not. Indeed, it’s authentic to the point of operating on Mexican time — slow, but it gets there even-tually. Our waiter is friendly and helpful, but moves at glacial speed, which may explain why nothing seems to arrive piping hot. Nonetheless, I’d go back for more authentic Mexican food and simply ask them to ensure my dishes are really hot.La Taquizza, 3175 Rutherford Rd. Vaughan (It’s a huge strip mall, but persevere and you’ll find it!). 905-669-2277. www.lataquizza.com.

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• Photo albums are a nice gift, even in this digital age. There’s something cold about gathering the gang around a computer or tablet to look at pictures. If you have a batch of photos of your hosts, mount them in the album yourself before you present it to them. You’ll be giving a gift of time and one-of-a-kind memories. Who wouldn’t treasure that?

• Flowers can be fabulous. Look for something a little unusual, like tiny dendrobium orchids on a long stem, with grey-green eucalyptus branches and Asian lilies. If you’re taking flowers to an event, bring a simple vase, too, so your hostess doesn’t have to scurry around to find one. If someone in the household is allergic look to chocolate roses or fancy fruit concoctions from places like Edible Arrangements, instead.

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When December hits, there’ll be parties, open houses, dinners, teas and all kinds of lively get-togethers. You know it’s so. And you also know you’ll want to bring along something to thank your host and hostess for all their effort.

Here’s where most of us hit the LCBO. You can’t go wrong with a nice bottle of wine, after all. Or can you? Some folks don’t drink, for medical or other reasons. Other people have very specific preferences in wine — heaven forbid you bring a big burgundy to a confirmed pinot noir drinker. And some people already have a well-stocked wine cellar, thank you very much.

Besides, wine is so… unimaginative.This season, show your thanks in a different way. Show you’ve put some

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The four-cylinder drives and handles superbly and it achieves fuel economy of 9.2 L/100 kms in the city and 6.2 L/100 kms on the highway. There was a time a four-cylinder car would be lucky to have 140-hp and break the 10 L/100 kms mark but the fact that the Accord Coupe can produce almost 200 ponies for such reasonable fuel economy begs the question why anyone would consider the V-6.

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The Vaughan native is ranked as the top prospect in the 2014 high school class, according to Coast 2 Coast recruiting. He transferred to Huntington Prep, a self-described “basketball acad-emy” in West Virginia, this sum-mer after earning OFSAA gold with coach Gus Gymnopoulos and the Voyageurs in March. Wiggins was the high scorer in the championship game despite being in ninth grade.

“It’s obvious that losing a player like him is never good,” Gymnopoulos said. “I don’t know what it’s going to be like until we start playing games, what his impact on the court actually was.”

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tuesday, october, 11Maple High School (63) versus Father Bressani (20)St. Jean De Brebeuf CHS (50) versus Holy Cross (31)Vaughan SS (57) versus St. Theresa Of Lisieux (30) Tanenbaum CHAT Kimel (40) versus Langstaff SS (37) Woodbridge College (27) versus Toronto District Christian (12) Wednesday, october 12Vaughan SS (49) versus Dr. G.W. Williams (22)

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Central-West GP W l t PtS Stephen Lewis SS 6 6 0 0 12 Tanenbaum CHAT Kimel 5 3 2 0 6 Vaughan SS 5 3 2 0 6 Langstaff SS 6 2 4 0 4 St. Joan Of Arc 4 2 2 0 4 St. Theresa Of Lisieux 5 1 4 0 2 Dr. G.W. Williams 5 1 4 0 2

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Friday, october 14, 2011St. Jean De Brebeuf (5) versus St. Maximilian (0)

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Thursday, October 6Emily Carr (5) versus Westmount (0)Woodbridge (3) versus Maple High School (0) Tuesday, october 11Vaughan SS (1) versus Emily Carr (0)Stephen Lewis SS (4) versus Maple High School (0)Woodbridge (6) versus Westmount (0)

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Thursday, october 13Vaughan SS (1) versus Maple High School (1)Stephen Lewis SS (3) versus Westmount (1)Emily Carr (0) versus Woodbridge College (0)

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central-east W L T Bill Crothers SS 3 0 1 St. Elizabeth 1 1 2 Sacred Heart 1 2 1 St. Theresa 1 3 0

central-West W L T St. Joan Of Arc 3 0 1 Aurora HS 2 1 1 Father Bressani 1 0 3 Cardinal Carter 1 2 1 Jean Vanier CHS 0 4 0

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One of the many people who noticed Wiggins’ potential was Rob Fulford, head coach of Huntington Prep.

“He’s a star, there’s no question about it,” Fulford said. “He’s a Lebron, Kobe-level talent.”

Although basketball fans in Canada still haven’t heard of the Vaughan prodigy, Wiggins was still in middle school when he achieved celebrity-status south of the border. Despite the popularity both of Wiggins’ coaches said he doesn’t seek the limelight and has even stopped speaking to the press due to interview fatigue.

“He has so much hype and publicity that surrounds him and it doesn’t phase him,” Fulford said. “He’s just a humble kid like any other 16-year-old kid would be. He can’t wait to get to home to get to the Xbox and goof around and be a silly kid.”

Vaughan’s coach echoed those statements, saying the media attention may actually be helping him.

“As a person, Andrew’s always been a very, very humble kid,” Gymnopou-los said. “I think the scrutiny has made him want to get better and he doesn’t want to let that status go down.”

Gymnopoulos is hoping the Voya-geurs’ champion status doesn’t go down this season without Wiggins in the lineup.

“We want to win OFSAA, we want to repeat as champions but I think our goal is to get better with every single game and see how far that takes us,” Gymnopoulos said. “That’s kind of always the goal that I set.”

Henry Tan will be returning to run the point alongside the shooting of Roshane Roberts, the versatility of Sy Samuels and scorer Troy Knight-Reid.

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“You never know what’s going to happen so that’s the exciting part of this season,” Gymnopoulos said. “Obviously anytime we lose people are going to say ‘well, it was because of Andrew Wiggins,’ so that in itself is motivating our guys like crazy.”

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